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Scott family photograph album - P1997-032/5

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Reference NumberP1997-032/5Datec.1890sCreatorScott, John Halliday, Professor, 1851-1914DescriptionAn album of 184 photographs (plus one loose print) mainly taken overseas at Jim Scott's houses at Hangchow and Shanghai and the Scott family house in Edinburgh. There are many excellent house interiors and several photographs relating to Grandma Bealey's house at Alassio, Italy. One domestic interior in Edinburgh on p.36, includes the watercolour of Moeraki Boulders that J.H. Scott gave to his mother after it earned a bronze medal at the India and Colonial Exhibition in London in 1886. Some of the photographs of Switzerland are attributed on the backs to Frank Scott and there are a few of him taken in Edinburgh. There are also a few significant images relating to Kāi Tahu Māori, probably taken by J.H. Scott, and a series of De Maus photographs of the art exhibits at the New Zealand and South Seas exhibition held in Dunedin between 1889-1890.

Only a small part of this collection is digitised and available through Digital Collections. Information about other items can be found on the Hākena catalogue, through the Library Catalogues link above.ProvenanceThese are the donor's photographs.

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Gallery I, Exhibition of Art, New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition, Dunedin

Gallery II, Exhibition of Art, New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition

Gallery III, Exhibition of Art, New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition

Gallery II, Exhibition of Art, New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition

Gallery III, Exhibition of Art, New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition

Gallery, Exhibition of Art, New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition

Gallery V, Exhibition of Art, New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition

Gallery, Exhibition of Art, New Zealand South Seas Exhibition

C.R.S. Roberts

Cows

Māori women and child

Hangi

Sail boat at a jetty

Haymaking

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